Ian Cooper

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Ian Cooper

Professor of Finance

MA (Cambridge), MBA and PhD (North Carolina)

Professor Ian Cooper joined London Business School in 1978. He is Professor of Finance and has taught widely across all the programmes of the School. He currently teaches
corporate finance and valuation. He has also held positions at the University of Chicago and Australian Graduate School of Management. The quality of his teaching has been recognised by several teaching
prizes.

His work has been published widely in academic journals, including The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He has articulated the practical implications of his research in articles in practitioner journals, such as the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, as well as many published consulting reports.

Professor Cooper has 40 years of international experience consulting on valuation, corporate finance, and cost of capital. He has advised companies, financial institutions, regulators, and governments around the
world. He has appeared as an expert witness and provided expert evidence in court proceedings in international tribunals and high courts.